Road Trip Checklist – What to do in an emergency?

Everyone appreciates the freedom of a road trip and the opportunity to explore new and exciting places. As anticipation builds and preparations get underway, it’s hard to remember everything that needs organising, but it’s no time for complacency. Road trips should be fun for everyone, although roads are dangerous places and it’s essential to compile a road trip checklist, including what to do in an emergency.

Preparing for your road trip

Although emergency situations are a rarity for everyday Australians, you should know how to respond if an accident or incident occurs. Minor injuries are usually no big deal for guys, with accidents usually resulting in good-natured banter at the injured person’s expense, but serious accidents can happen that require immediate medical response. Although it is essential to carry a first aid kit with you on your road trip, health and safety are optimised if at least one person holds relevant first aid and CPR qualifications.

Real Response, Australia’s most innovative and progressive first aid training organisation, delivers simulation-based first aid training for superior knowledge acquisition and recall. In only a day or two of dedicated first aid training you can develop skills equitable to those of professional paramedics and medical emergency responders, in time for your road trip.

Here are just a few attainments in Provide First Aid (HLTAID003) that you can tick off your road trip checklist, allowing you to understand exactly what to do in an emergency.

Simulation-based first aid training advantages

Although around 25% of Australians have undertaken old-style first aid and CPR training in the past, only 4% are confident of correctly remembering the procedures in a real emergency. Enter Real Response first aid training, where simulated reality creates an immersive learning environment and superior knowledge and skills retention.

As is said, ‘practice makes perfect’, and when first aid instruction includes ‘learning by doing’, course graduates are ready for timely and appropriate emergency response the moment training is complete. Here are just a few Real Response training advantages:

Transformation of any setting into a realistic practice emergency zone

Actors and props for immersing course participants in emergency reality

The use of real emergency equipment including portable defibrillators

Fake wounds, blood and bandaging to familiarise students with emergency reality

Your road trip first aid kit

After all your preparations for a road trip adventure, it would be crazy to leave home without a first aid kit. A good first aid kit should contain a variety of dressings, medical creams and equipment to deal with minor emergencies. Your first aid kit should contain basic medical items that can be used by anyone, including:

Gloves

Dressings / Bandages

Antiseptic

Surgical tape

Small scissors

Tweezers

Approved pain relief medication

A Real Response trained first-aider with access to appropriate equipment is ready to step in and save a life when nobody else can. Health and safety concerns are all-pervasive across modern society, while road trips have always contained an element of danger, so Real Response encourages all Australians to consider attaining highly-regarded first aid qualifications.

Australians love travel, and road trips are a rite of passage for most of us. Spring is here and it’s time to enjoy the great outdoors, and if a life-threatening situation arises, your first aid skills will kick in and potentially save the day. Nobody likes to think about accidents and emergencies, but they do sometimes occur, so being prepared with nationally accredited first aid qualifications is a no-brainer to ensure everyone enjoys their road trip to the max.

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